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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. |OT| Tahiti is a Magical Place (to...Hey guys, I found it!)
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Lone_Prodigy
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Winter Soldier was amazing. Can't wait for Tuesday.
fallengorn
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SHIELD is deader than a doorknob. They're going to rebrand the show (if they want to continue it) as Secret Avengers... or something similar. Basically, a cadre helping Fury weed out Hydra or whatever.
BattleMonkey
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The movies make shield look professional and bad ass. Everything this show doesn't portray.
HP_Wuvcraft
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HP_Wuvcraft
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Of course it is, but I mean disbanding forever.
There's no way Marvel would kill off SHIELD permanently.
There's no way Marvel would kill off SHIELD permanently.
Father_Brain
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Grain of salt since this is from a Marvel spokesperson, but "huge" news supposedly coming tomorrow via USA TODAY. Safe to predict that it relates to TWS' ending in some way.
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
Dude, tag that comment.
If SHIELD does come back, it's not going to be anytime soon. Anyway, it all depends on how much weight Fiege wants the MCU to carry. If he reinstalls SHIELD, any bold movies (like dismantling SHIELD) aren't going to be as strong.
Callibretto
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how bad ass is Melinda May supposed to be? like how would she fare against Black Widow? or Ward vs Rumlow/Falcon
I'm assuming
Coulson tells everyone to pack it up and go home until Skye gives him a corny pep talk about how they're a family, and that the world needs SHIELD now more than ever and that convinces them to keep SHIELD going on their own with Coulson as the de-factor Director of this independent mini-SHIELD. Then they'll just continue limping along like that until they're mercifully hit by a cancellation bullet midway through season 2.
The maximum event will get even maximum-er.
BlackNMild2k1
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It gets way better and less procedural in the 2nd season.
crimsonheadGCN
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Remember those Mandarin rumors a few months ago? Can someone post them?
Now that TWS has been released, it seems like a lot of it was sorta true. There is an AI program, but it's not the Mandarin and the Marvel Short dealt with the real Mandarin.
Lone_Prodigy
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I bet Sitwell's true allegiance didn't sit well with some fans.
I'm sure they'll get over it once they introduce agent Punsalot to the show.
Hint: He makes puns a lot
Hint: He makes puns a lot
The Giant
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Most likely they will announce Season 2.
Alcoremortis
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Samuel L. Jackson comes in for another cameo!
dark_prinny
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So, do you guys recommend the show?
Alcoremortis
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Recommend is a strong word. I would say if you're on a Marvel kick and need more, this might scratch that itch, especially the last few episodes. If you only have time for one show at a time and want to know if this is the one you should pick to spend your single hour of free time watching? You might want to wait it out.
I still would not. Nothing really engaging happened on the show, showrunners are still trying to find their footing.
They will 100% get S2 pickup, so things may get better.
MCU movie fans or AoS fans? There is a difference.
That works too!
Tough to say, IMO the ball starts to get rolling by episode 11. Until then, it's a chore to get through with the cast having little chemistry to begin with and Skye being annoying most of the time. There is an overarching storyline in the show but it has that procedural feel to it that it's hard to get emotionally invested. When you do start to get worried about them, nothing happens and they end up okay in the end. Action scenes are few and far between and when they do happen, the fight choreography is on the bland side. But eventually, one or two characters start to grow on you (It's still tough to feel something for Ward though). They are still starting to grow on me though, the only character I kinda worry over for is.... I'm gonna say is Coulson at this point. Clark Gregg is the only person I feel is putting any effort in his acting as Coulson and the things that are happening right now in the MCU will definitely have a tremendous effect on him and the team. So I can't wait to see what comes next. It's still pretty hard to watch at times, I'm afraid. And the show needs to work on it's purpose and it's drama.
So, go ahead and watch the show if you want. If you drop it, no big deal, we understand.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Sure. It had a rocky start, but it's getting better, and it looks like the story arc that begins just before Winter Soldier and continues to the end of the season will be some genuinely great stuff.
Alcoremortis
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I don't think that Fury put the info on Coulson into the SHIELD databanks. I was under the impression that it was only in hard copy.
Miles Quaritch
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That
info wasn't on SHIELD servers. Remember the T.A.H.I.T.I episode where the official log of what happened was nothing more than a dead end?
No. It is still bland, so unless you want to look at two pretty girls, I wouldn't recommend it.
Funky Papa
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It should be extremely easy to find for cheap now that the show is on its third season.
Also, crazy eyed Amy Acker is too much for my poor heart.
Fake edit: Amazon's Blu-ray set is not expensive at all given that each season has like a gazillion episodes.
I'm here for the ass-kicking middle-aged asian woman.
Red Arremer
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The MCU movie fans probably don't care, cause the character only appeared in a handful of the one-shots, but not anywhere else. However, it does affect AoS, but also comic book fans, cause the character he is based on in the books
dies while protecting Fury.
George Oscar Bluth II
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RyougaSaotome
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Chun-Li you mean.
Oh god you just blew my mind.
I found her to be so annoying in ER that I can't cheer her on.
D
Deleted member 20920
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Based on how legendary she seems to be, it wouldn't be wrong to say that she's supposed to be on the same level or even better than Black Widow but the show is incapable of showing that off.
When she was on there everyone was annoying. God that show seemed to run forever past it's prime.
Callibretto
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Black widow and hawkeye don't look like the typical shield agent though, they had codename, special gadget and weapon, work directly under Nick Fury. And Lorelai kick May's ass pretty easily before while you'd imagine black widow may have given a bit more of a fight.
Callibretto
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I hope coulson got to meet Nick Fury and ask where the hell that blue alien come from.
The worst part of these shows is how the characters see this clearly incredible/insane stuff and then go back to their monster of the week, which is ridiculous.
I mean they combined forces with another shield team in order to infiltrate an unknown military base (That had SOME kind of connection with shield) which resulted in the murder of two on-site crew and the destruction of a small island that included the entire military site, oh and yeah an alien was down there with a secret drug being made out of its blood that can resurrect the dead.
No need to talk that out, lets just roll on.
Callibretto
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Eh we got proper reason for that, Coulson think if Fury went as far as hiding the blue alien outside of shield, than it must be for a reason, which is why he had been trying to find Fury but Fury is simply couldn't be found. Simmons want to send samples to shield and do further research about the magical cure and Coulson forbid them to send anything ouy to shield.
HappenstanceUK
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IGN have an article up on whats going to happen with Agents of SHIELD after Cap 2
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/04/...er-plan-for-marvels-agents-of-shield-revealed
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/04/...er-plan-for-marvels-agents-of-shield-revealed
Everything sounds good except for this quote
The story isn't the main reason I've had mixed feelings about the show. Even then, the story should be satisfying on its own apart from a payoff. Quality doesn't need excuses.
TacticalFox88
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Remember when I said this show would go balls deep near the end of the season and you all laughed at me?
Where's my delicious crow!
dead souls
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Yeah, the whole "Two thirds of our first season sucked on purpose" or "There's nothing we could do because of the movies" stuff is ridiculous.
There's no excuse for how bad this show has been.
Red Arremer
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There's been plenty of shows where the first few episodes were bad, then it started picking up. For some shows, the entire first one or two seasons sucked (Star Trek TNG) before they picked up.
The show also was already prone to harsher criticism because a lot of people were expecting a super hero show, not a sci-fi CSI, so many set themselves up for disappointment.
Of course it doesn't make the first half of this season good or excuse the lack of quality, but I think the show has been unjustly bashed and shit upon for no reason other than people hating it because it didn't live up to their expectations, although the showmakers have said often that it was not going to be about superpowered people in the center.
Or, to make it short, it's nowhere nearly as bad as some are making it out to be.
Regardless, I do hope that AoS has learned from the experience of the first few episodes, however, and that it's going to stay as good as it has been lately for coming eps.
The show also was already prone to harsher criticism because a lot of people were expecting a super hero show, not a sci-fi CSI, so many set themselves up for disappointment.
Of course it doesn't make the first half of this season good or excuse the lack of quality, but I think the show has been unjustly bashed and shit upon for no reason other than people hating it because it didn't live up to their expectations, although the showmakers have said often that it was not going to be about superpowered people in the center.
Or, to make it short, it's nowhere nearly as bad as some are making it out to be.
Regardless, I do hope that AoS has learned from the experience of the first few episodes, however, and that it's going to stay as good as it has been lately for coming eps.
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